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Skegness
Junior Academy

Curriculum

The Curriculum Overview

At the Skegness Infant and Junior Academies our vision is to create a primary academy that encourages its children to secure key knowledge, be given real experiences and have the opportunity to apply their knowledge in a range of contexts. A key component of our curriculum development is to ensure that the children can have the opportunity to revisit prior learning, ensuring that key facts and vocabulary are secured.


We want to help each child become a caring, confident and curious young person who has a passion for learning and achieving.


We will do this by supporting, guiding and inspiring our children through excellent teaching practices.
By working with our families, we strive to provide inclusive opportunities and shared experiences within the academies where everyone is valued and successes are celebrated. Please see our Support for Parents area for further information on how to support your child further in the curriculum.

Equality and SEND 

Our curriculum is tailored to ensure it meets the requirements of the Equality Act and SEND regulations with an inclusive approach, through creating equality of opportunity and fostering good relations, ensuring pupils are not unlawfully discriminated against because of their sex, race, disability, religion or belief or sexual orientation. Provision for SEND pupils is tailored to their requirements through a graduated approach and via their IEP (Individual Educational Plans). These are reviewed and amended so to ensure that they reflect their current requirements.
As part of the Greenwood Academies Trust we benefit from being part of a wider community. Working within a group of East Coast Academies, the East Coast Curriculum Cluster Group meet to skill share, exchange ideas for curriculum development and provide challenge through moderation activities.


Aims

• Motivate and challenge our children to achieve academic success.

• Partner with families to create an aspirational school community.

• Appreciate the uniqueness of each child and recognise their potential. Support, guide and inspire through excellent teaching practices.

Academy Expectations


• Staff have high expectations of themselves and all children.
• Teachers are expected to impart knowledge accurately and with enthusiasm which generates high levels of commitment from children.
• We expect children to make rapid and sustained progress in lessons.
• We expect teachers to support children in developing independence.
• We expect teachers to systematically check understanding, intervening in a timely manner when needed.
• We expect children to be challenged.
• We expect teachers to regularly provide high quality marking and constructive feedback to children.

Our school Values feed into our approach.

We use curriculum partners to support the delivery of our broad and balanced curriculum. These include:

We are a PiXL academy, and we use these resources throughout our curriculum.

Many of our staff have MIE expert experience, and we use these tools effectively throughout our curriculum.

Please click here for a range of staff CPD events

Microsoft 365: Guidance for parents and guardians

We follow White Rose Maths overview and draw on these resources to drive standards in mathematics.

Please click here for a range of CPD resources

We engage with Doodle Maths and Times Table Rockstars and use these to enrich our maths provision.

Please click here for Doodle Maths staff CPD

Click here for parent support with Doodle Maths

Please click here for Times Table Rockstars staff CPD

Click here for parent support with Times Table Rockstars

'The Write Stuff' approach by Jane Considine to support writing in our academy.

Please click here for staff CPD events

Support the teaching and learning of phonics and vocabulary across our academy.

Click here for Bedrocks CPD on delivering outstanding vocabulary teaching

Parents’ guide to using Bedrock at home

Please click here to visit our Phonics page for parents and staff

To support the delivery of computing and online safety.

Click here for teacher CPD for Project Evolve

Click here for Teach Computing resources

Click here for National Online Safety resources for staff and parents

To support the delivery of our wider curriculum subjects.

Please click here for teacher CPD

To support the teaching and learning of Science.

Please click here for Developing Experts teacher CPD

To enrich teaching and learning of our Physical Education.

Please click here for teacher CPD and resources

Our RE curriculum is supported by the aims and objectives in the Lincolnshire Locally Agreed Syllabus.

Please click here for staff resources and the syllabus

 Support the delivery of history teaching and learning.

Click here for staff CPD

Please click here for staff CPD

To support map work in geography using digital technology.